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Certain comfortable expositions of the constant martyr of Christ, M. John Hooper, Bishop of…Certeine comfortable expositions of the constant martyr of Christ, M. Iohn Hooper, Bishop of…
Certain comfortable expositions of the constant martyr of Christ, M. John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester written in the time of his tribulation and imprisonment, upon the XXIII. LXII. LXXIII. and LXXVII. Psalms of the prophet David.Certeine comfortable expositions of the constant martyr of Christ, M. Iohn Hooper, Bishop of Glocester and Worcester written in the time of his tribulation and imprisonment, vpon the XXIII. LXII. LXXIII. and LXXVII. Psalmes of the prophet Dauid.
London: printed by Henry Middleton, 1580London: printed by Henrie Middleton, 1580
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Commentary Psalm 77 › Body of exposition › Part 2 (verse 2): ¶The second part.
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In what a sea of heaviness was king David in his conscience, when he spake to his own soul:1 Why art thou so heavy and sorrowful, ô my soul, and why dost thou thus trouble me? Again, How long wilt thou forget me (ô Lord?) for ever? And in other Psalms we may see, into what trembling and fear outwardly he was brought by the knowledge and feeling of his sin.
In what a sea of heauines was king Dauid in his conscience, when he spake to his owne soule:1 Why art thou so heauie and sorrowfull, ô my soule, and why dost thou thus trouble mee? Againe, How long wilt thou forget mee (ô Lord?) for euer? And in other Psalmes we may sée, into what trembling and feare outwardly he was brought by the knowledge and féeling of his sinne.
In one place he saith, The fear of his sins did not only overlay his conscience:1 but also crushed and (in manner) all to broke his bones.2 And in another ⟨image 87⟩place, His visage was all defaced with weeping tears: and so abundantly they gushed out of his eyes, that he watered, or rather overflowed his bed with them where he lay. Into what horrible cries and wailings many times he fell for fear of sin:3 this Psalm and many other do declare. The like horror and fear also of the sight and feeling of sin we see to have been in Saint Paul, when he cried out upon him self: Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body subject unto death?